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My problem with demands for imposing such a "patriotic" song on school
children is that the intent is purely political with an eye towards
inciting nationalistic fervor, and creating an issue that has the
potential to divide the electorate. This is exactly the kind of wedge
strategy that has been followed in the U.S. for the last three decades
on school prayer, intelligent design and a variety of other religious
and pseudo-patriotic issues.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Sandeep Heble <sandeephe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps the only sensible demand that was made here was for the
> implementation of the National song "Vande Mataram" in schools. While
> the overall demands became the scope of a major debate and many of
> the objections were entirely valid from secular and liberal quarters,
> what came across as entirely surprising was the objection to the
> implementation of "Vande Mataram" in schools.
>
